Portiere.



J. HOYE. Penman. APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1914.

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JAMES IIOYE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

PO-RTIERE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

Application filed May 9, 1914. Serial No. 837,494.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES HOYE, a cltlzen of the United States, residing at Rochester,

in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Portieres, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improved portiere, valance or grille, and has for an object to provide an article of this kind which is adapted, preferably, to be hung over doorways or the like and which comprehends a neat and eflective structure having a unlque and pleasing appearance and which consists of parts that can be readily arranged and assembled to produce the desired effect.

The invention further comprehends the provision of a portiere consisting of a combination of mechanical parts relatively arranged and assembled to produce a novel and artistic effect, as clearly set forth in Design Patent No. 14,925 granted to me November 25, 1913.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the portiere; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary enlarged view of the portiere showing one of the depending members in front elevation and the other in section; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on the line 33 in Fig. 2.

' Referring more particularly to the views, I provide a pole or rod 10 which is adapted to be arranged in a horizontal position between the vertical sides of the door casing 11, suitable sockets 12 being secured to the door casing and having tubular portions 13 in which the ends of the pole or rod 10 are received to support the pole or rod as shown in Fig. 1.

Loosely arranged upon the pole or rod are a series of rings 14;, each of said rings supporting a depending ornamental string 15, the said strings being adapted to be made of different lengths, but each being substantially similar in construction and arrangement except that one is made longer than another by a mere duplication of parts. Each ring 14 includes a rigid auxiliary ring or eyelet 16 depending from the ring and being adapted to loosely support a depending small eye bolt 17 which has eye 18 thereof loosely passing through the auxiliary ring. A series of chains of any desired shape or construction connect adjacent eye bolts 17, as shown, the said chains 19 being adapted to hang in suspended position to present a neat and eflective appearance.

The threaded end of each eyelet extends loosely into the axle bore 21 of a ball-like or other body 22 and an opposed eye bolt 23 projects upwardly in the bore 21 of the body 22, a suitable threaded sleeve 24: being arranged in the bore to connect the threaded ends of the eye bolts 17 and 23, with the eye 25 of the eye bolt 23 lying exteriorly and be low the body 22 and passing loosely through the eye 26 of an eye bolt 27 having its threaded end secured in the upper end of an ornamental member or bar 28 which is preferably made solid and which, if desired, can have suitable end pieces 29 thereon. The other end of each ornamental member or bar 28 carries an eye bolt 30 which has its threaded end secured therein and the eye 31 of the eye bolt 30 has loose connection with another eye bolt 32 which has its threaded end secured into an ornamental member or body 33 preferably made solid and of any desired configuration.

Now it will be noted that inasmuch as it is desired to have some of the ornamental strings 15 of greater length than others in order to produce the desired effect, the longer ornamental strings are mere duplications of the shorter ones and thus where the shortest ornamental string carries at its lower end the ornamental member or body 33, the longest ornamental string carrying the ornamental body 33 at its lower end, has interposed therein a number of the ornamental members or bars 28 and consequently additional ornamental balls or bodies 22 with correspondingly additional means of connections in the nature of the eye bolts described heretofore. It will be particularly noticed that the chains 19 connecting the eye bolts 17 which are supported on the auxiliary rings 16 constitute the connecting mediums for adjacent rings 14 supported on the pole or rod 10 and it will be clear that each string may be readily taken apart by simply unscrewing the various eye bolts from the members to which they are connected and that normally the threaded ends of the eye bolts and also the sleeves 24 connecting adjacent eye bolts are not visible to the observer, but are respectively secured in the ornamental members or pass through the aXial bores of the ornamental balls or bodies.

With a construction of the character described it will be apparent that a portiere such as set forth can be cheaply manufactured, will present a neat and eflective appearance, and, on account of its mechanical arrangement and the combination of its mechanical parts, can be readily assembled or as'easily disassembled. It will be understood that the ornamental members or bodies can be either solid or hollow or made in any desired configuration, although I preferably construct the same as shown, or as set forth in the Design Patent No. 44,925 of November 25, 1913, granted to me,'as identig fied heretofore.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a series of superposed -ornamental bodies, eye bolts interposed between the bodies to relatively connect the same, said eye bolts being in threaded engagement with the bodies whereby the distance between adjacent bodies can be in- -creased or decreased and whereby the length of a pendant formed by said bodies can be varied, and a threaded sleeve threadedly connecting a plurality of the eye bolts for increasing or decreasing the combined length thereof. 7

2. In a portiere, the combination with a supporting rod, of a pendant formed of a series of superposed connected bodies, oppositely disposed eye bolts, a sleeve threadedly connecting the oppositely disposed eye bolts, a member inclosing said sleeve, with the eye bolts loosely passing through openings in said member, means connecting the pendant with the lowermost of said oppositely disposed eye bolts, and means connecting the uppermost of said oppositely disposed eye bolts with said supporting rod so that said pendant will appear to depend therefrom, the length of said pendant being adapted to be increased or decreased by relatively unscrewing or screwing up said oppositely disposed eye bolts with respect to said sleeve without removing said sleeve from its inclosed position in said member and without removing said eye boltsfrom the openings through which they pass, in said member.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES HOYE.

l/Vitnesses ANTHONY G. ENGLERT, J. HUBERT DOUGLAS.

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